The Picture

	  		
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There are pictures on the piano 
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Pictures of the family 
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Mostly my kids but there's an old 
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Picture of you and me 
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You were five and I was six 
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In 1952 
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That was forty years ago 
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How could it be true? 

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We were sitting outside drawing 
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At a table meant for cards 
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And it must have been in autumn 
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Falling leaves in the front yard 
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With a shoe box full of crayons 
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Full of colors oh so bright 
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In a picture in a plastic frame 
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A snapshot black and white 

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You were looking at my paper 
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Watching what I drew 
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It was natural: I was older 
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Thirteen months more than you 
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A brother and a sister 
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A little boy and girl 
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And whoever took that picture 
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Captured our own world 

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A brother needs a sister 
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To watch what he can do 
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To protect and to torture 
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To boss around it's true 
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But a brother will defend her 
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For a sister's love is pure 
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Because she thinks he's wonderful 
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When he is not so sure 

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In the picture there's a fender 
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Of our old Chevrolet 
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Or Pontiac, our dad would know 
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Surely he could say 
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But dad is dead and we grow old 
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It's true that time flies by 
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And in forty years the world has changed 
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As well as you and I